SPRING. Altaniston Sept 3.1794. BOOK THE FIRST. Now teeming buds and chearful greens appear, And western gales unlock the lazy year. DRYDEN. COME, gentle SPRING! ethereal Mildness! come; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. |